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- Location(s): Cambridge, Dulwich
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Cambridge, 1994. Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian at the height of his powers, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience...
- Location(s): Cambridge, Cornwall, Maze Hill
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1998
You might be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not watching you. Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers’...
- Location(s): Cambridge, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1912
Set in Cambridge and London in 1912, The Gate of Angels is a love story and a novel of ideas. Fred, a rector’s son, has abandoned religion for observable truths, whereas the undereducated Daisy is a Christian for whom...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
St Christopher’s College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros – a group therapist struggling through her private grief – it’s where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it’s the tragic scene of...
- Location(s): Iceland, Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 19th to early 20th centuries
A father and son struggle to overcome the distance between them. Each is drawn irresistibly to an unforgiving landscape, one that has been the scene of tragedy and loss. The son’s return to the northern shore he abandoned as...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet – Lost on the left, Found on the right – and the two never seem...
- Location(s): Brighton, Cambridge, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
1953, Brighton, London and Cambridge. When sports hack Joey Gillingham is murdered in a barber’s chair the reason he is in Brighton for the day is unclear. His body is whisked away mysteriously and ex-Secret Service backroom girl Mirabelle...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Mike Engleby has a secret… This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns...
- Location(s): Cambridge
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
St Radegund’s College, Cambridge, which admits only women students, breaks with one hundred and sixty years of tradition by appointing a man, former BBC executive James Rycarte, as its new Head of House. As Rycarte fights to win over...
- Location(s): Peterborough
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
No witnesses, no fingerprints – only a positive ID of the victim as an immigrant with a long list of enemies. Detectives Zigic and Ferreira are called in from the Hate Crimes Unit to track the killer, and are...